Re: Sumich will replace CC if he fails
RIPPER_46 said:
It is clear to me that CC has done an outstanding job building a list when you look at what he started with.
Not at all the fact are irrefutable that WCE squad is 1or 2 years ahead of ours in experience.
Seriously, both clubs were at a nadir at exactly the same time, the end of 2001. Why do you think there's that ongoing battle about which team was the worst in 2001?
As I recall, we were in fact the spoon favourites for 2002 pre-season. Both CC and Woosha were recruited for that season, so the development time and starting point for both clubs is pretty close to identical. The only ground I'd grant you is that our older players were probably a little more talented than yours; but your younger ones were better than ours at the time, and some of our older players are now gone.
The only reason we might have 1 or 2 more years experience is that we've put our younger players on the field and given them game time.
RIPPER_46 said:
We had to trade to get some experienced leaders a fact that I have already proved that you did not have to. In fact you are still reping indirectly the benifits of WCE's concessions of the early nineties with Banfield on your list and being able to get a 3rd round pick for Morrison.
A third round pick is worth bollocks, and Banfield was a pick in the draft proper, not a concession pick (the fact Sydney were foolish enough to trade us pick 1 for Begovich and Watters is neither here nor there)
RIPPER_46 said:
You cannot have a whole team of young draft picks.
The only player that CC has traded away of note would be Mcphee.
Make up your mind , one minute CC shows no faith in young players and next minute he does.
Why wasn't Chris Judd left on the ground the whole time in his early years for "development"?
At least Judd was getting
game time at AFL level as part of his development. Freo seems scared of even selecting the younger, more inexperienced players. Take the way Murphy's been in and out of the team for instance.